Nearly 50% of terrigenous materials delivered to the world's oceans are delivered through
just twenty-one major river systems. These river-dominated coastal margins (including …

Mangrove forests are highly productive but globally threatened coastal ecosystems, whose
role in the carbon budget of the coastal zone has long been debated. Here we provide a …

Mangroves are ecologically and economically important forests of the tropics. They are
highly productive ecosystems with rates of primary production equal to those of tropical …

This chapter focuses on the net primary productivity and carbon (C) dynamics of mangrove
wetlands as related to the potential to sequester atmospheric C in above-and belowground …

The mangrove ecosystem in many wet tropical areas represents one of the most, if not the
most productive of natural ecosystems. The question that has occupied the minds of many …

Mangroves are recognized as one of the richest carbon storage systems. However, the
factors regulating carbon sinks in mangrove ecosystems are still unclear, particularly in the …

The contribution of mangrove carbon to the coastal ocean in low latitudes was evaluated.
Mangrove forests occupy only 2% of the world's coastal ocean area yet they account for …

Mangroves and salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems in the global
coastal ocean. Mangroves store more carbon (739 Mg CORG ha− 1) than salt marshes (334 …

Mangroves are recognized to possess a variety of ecosystem services including high rates
of carbon sequestration and storage. Deforestation and conversion of these ecosystems …

Mangrove ecosystems store large amounts of'Blue Carbon', in particular in the sediment.
Research in the past decade has emphasized the quantitative significance of carbon …